Dear Jeffrey,
Sorry to barge in...
First, I thank you for your posts and for the bibliography you contributed to this discussion.
But now... if "any epistemological stance and subsequent argument on it is broken", then why are you trying to fence these arguments with arguments of the same ilk?
On 07/03/2015, at 19:58, Jeffrey Bardzell wrote:
> It seems to me that a contribution to our criterial understanding of the
> key terms of our social existence is a generalizable form of knowledge. I
> wouldn't trust a therapist who only read James, it's true. Neither would I
> trust a therapist who had only ever read a single article in a psychology
> journal. Happily such persons simply do not and cannot exist, so any
> epistemological stance and subsequent argument based on it is broken.
And if "a contribution to our criterial understanding of the key terms of our social existence is a generalizable form of knowledge", so is the character of the cleaning lady in the movie "The Meaning of Life" by Monty Python.
It seems to me that this line of reasoning leads you in a path towards the "everything is connected to everything" nirvana, where everything is admissible as anything, ergo anything is admissible as research, and so on.
How is that helpful?
How is conflating science with creation (literature, in this instance) helpful?
What does anyone have to gain from it?
What knowledge do we gain from this?
Need I remind you that your interpretation of any poet might be different from mine, while your interpretation of any research conclusion will (hopefully) be not?
Am I misunderstanding the concept of "generalizable knowledge"?
Am I being too naive, in believing that doctoral research, whatever the field, should lead to some form of useful conclusion (even it is clearly presented as a stepping stone to other conclusions) -- I mean, useful to a group of people larger than the PhD student and his/her advisor(s)?
What am I missing here?
Best regards,
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